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Siegen, Germany -- The Volkswagen CrossBlue concept feels very much like a real car. Get inside. The cabin has wood graining, leather, and stitching. The air-conditioning and turn signals work. It even has Wi-Fi access. Alas, the Volkswagen CrossBlue concept is just a show car. We’re only allowed to drive it up to 20 mph, despite the fact that we have an airfield in Siegen, Germany all to ourselves. Still, driving it isn’t the point right now.

Siegen, Germany -- The Volkswagen CrossBlue concept feels very much like a real car. Get inside. The cabin has wood graining, leather, and stitching. The air-conditioning and turn signals work. It even has Wi-Fi access. Alas, the Volkswagen CrossBlue concept is just a show car. We’re only allowed to drive it up to 20 mph, despite the fact that we have an airfield in Siegen, Germany all to ourselves. Still, driving it isn’t the point right now.

Westlake Village, California -- Adding to its amazement factor for 2014, the Ram 1500 now offers buyers the choice of a brawler or a bruiser. The brawler, of course, is the available Hemi V-8. Raise it off idle, and you know it has attitude. To delve hard through its midrange toward the top is to experience true bellicosity.

Westlake Village, California -- Adding to its amazement factor for 2014, the Ram 1500 now offers buyers the choice of a brawler or a bruiser. The brawler, of course, is the available Hemi V-8. Raise it off idle, and you know it has attitude. To delve hard through its midrange toward the top is to experience true bellicosity.

Westlake Village, California -- Adding to its amazement factor for 2014, the Ram 1500 now offers buyers the choice of a brawler or a bruiser. The brawler, of course, is the available Hemi V-8. Raise it off idle, and you know it has attitude. To delve hard through its midrange toward the top is to experience true bellicosity.

Westlake Village, California -- Adding to its amazement factor for 2014, the Ram 1500 now offers buyers the choice of a brawler or a bruiser. The brawler, of course, is the available Hemi V-8. Raise it off idle, and you know it has attitude. To delve hard through its midrange toward the top is to experience true bellicosity.

Westlake Village, California -- With headlamps placed high above the front bumper, the 2014 Ram ProMaster is rather frog-faced. But even if a pretty maiden planted a wet one on the Ram badge, it wouldn't turn this curb hopper into a handsome deliveryman. Indeed, the ProMaster, a new model in Ram's lineup, is designed for prosaic purposes.

Westlake Village, California -- With headlamps placed high above the front bumper, the 2014 Ram ProMaster is rather frog-faced. But even if a pretty maiden planted a wet one on the Ram badge, it wouldn't turn this curb hopper into a handsome deliveryman. Indeed, the ProMaster, a new model in Ram's lineup, is designed for prosaic purposes.

Westlake Village, California -- With headlamps placed high above the front bumper, the 2014 Ram ProMaster is rather frog-faced. But even if a pretty maiden planted a wet one on the Ram badge, it wouldn't turn this curb hopper into a handsome deliveryman. Indeed, the ProMaster, a new model in Ram's lineup, is designed for prosaic purposes.

Westlake Village, California -- With headlamps placed high above the front bumper, the 2014 Ram ProMaster is rather frog-faced. But even if a pretty maiden planted a wet one on the Ram badge, it wouldn't turn this curb hopper into a handsome deliveryman. Indeed, the ProMaster, a new model in Ram's lineup, is designed for prosaic purposes.